The 62nd Annual Type Directors Club Competition call for entries is officially open!

Enter the world’s most prestigious juried typography competitions: 62nd TDC Communication Design Competition (TDC62) and 19th Annual TDC Typeface Design Competition (TDC 2016). These are the most highly-respected and selective competitions of typographic and typeface design from around the world.

IMPORTANT DATES:
• Early Bird deadline: October 30th, 2015
• Final Competition deadline: December 11th, 2015

Award winning submissions will receive worldwide exposure via the eight* TDC exhibitions that travel the globe throughout 2016, and will also be published in a beautiful hardbound annual, Typography 37. The TDC Annual is highly respected within the design community—many consider it the highest honor and most prestigious accomplishment to be featured on its pages. In becoming a winner in our competitions, you become a part of our rich history of typographic excellence.

The highly selective jury will choose the most innovative, original, beautiful, and smartest typographic designs from 2015. This year’s communication design competition is being co-chaired by TDC board member Karl Heine (creativeplacement) and Abby Goldstein (Fordham University).

The TDC62 call for entries campaign, the Type Directors Club annual design, Typography 37, and exhibition materials are being designed by the New York branding and design agency OCD | The Original Champions of Design. The annual will be available in bookstores in December 2016.

The deadline for submission is Friday, December 11, 2015. If you submit by the early bird deadline of Friday, October 30th, you will receive a substantial discount on the entry fee. As usual, all TDC members receive a discount on the fee. Entries can be entered digitally or physically submitted.

*TDC62 will tour the United States and Canada, the exhibitions will also tour in cities worldwide including Seoul, Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi, Taipei, London, and cities throughout Spain, France, Germany, Japan, Poland, and Russia. The award winning work will also appear at the 2016 ATypI conference.

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The Type Directors Club is the leading international organization whose purpose is to support excellence in typography, both in print and on screen. Through our annual competition and exhibition and frequent salons and workshops, we hope to celebrate the current stars of the typographic field and educate its future leaders. Learn more about the club here or become a member to help us give back to the community and to become a part of our history.